OBJECTIVE To determine the perceptions of the community about prevalence of different diseases in Gulshan-e-Sikandarabad, an urban squatter settlement in Karachi and compare them with the data about disease pattern available at Primary Health Care Center in the same community. METHODS A stratified random sample of ten percent of houses of the community was selected and both male and female he...

1 PhD Candidate, Community Oral Health Department, School of Dentistry, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences (SBMU), Tehran, Iran; Preventive Dentistry Research Center, Dental Research Institute, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences (SBMU), Tehran, Iran 2 Assistant Professor, Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran 3 Associate Professor, ...

* The Worm Health Organization International Influenza Center for the Americas and the Respiratory Virology Unit, Center for Disease Control, Health Services and Mental Health Administration, Public Health Service, U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Atlanta, Georgia 3o333. t Department of Preventive Medicine and Community Health, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Geo...

The maintenance of current knowledge in physiology in community colleges is very difficult to accomplish. The absence of a research environment, limited library facilities, and heavy teaching loads often result in the instructor utilizing the teaching textbook as the primary source of information. A cooperative program between The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and San...

May 15, 2010 – Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH) is delighted to announce the Center for Community Health Education Research and Service (CCHERS) in Boston, MA, USA as the recipient of the 9th Annual CCPH Award. The award, presented during the closing session of CCPH's 11 th conference in Portland, Oregon, USA, recognizes exemplary partnerships between communities and higher educa...